Surf City first came in to existence when bored friends Davin Stoddard and Josh Kennedy met at a party in Mt Roskill, Auckland, New Zealand in 2004. Tired of the heavy avant-garde music that was prolific at the time Stoddard and Kennedy teamed up with Josh
Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn was born September 17, 1974, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and has released a number of albums under the K Records label. She has collaborated with her close friend Phil Elvrum of The Microphones and has also worked extensively with The Black Cat Orchestra. Mirah is the youngest of three children and lived in Bala Cynwyd, a suburb of Philadelphia for most of her childhood. She then moved to Olympia, Washington and attended The Evergreen State College. She is modest and deliberate, prefers privacy to invasion and reconciliation to war.
BITCHES are a London based drum/bass duo formed early 2009; Blake plays bass and shouts, Staz hits drums. AVAILABLE NOW:
Cassette on Deathbomb Arc - ORDER HERE!. "Amazingly full-sounding songs, constructed from nothing more than a few effortlessly effective bass riffs, a ton of light-hearted fury and no end of chaotic punk-style rock rock'n'roll" - Nightshift, February 2009 ".. channelling Henry Rollins on black coffee and X-Ray Spex on Panda Pops. Here's to the gall of them. Those crazy Bitches." - The Guardian, New Music on Wednesday, February 2009.
we are Mexican Kids at Home:
we are four skateboarders and a girl singer Folky slacker pop with cute woo-woo harmonies. Effortlessly breezy and instantly lovable, they will reaffirm your hope for the future of humanity!
Camella Lobo & Juan Mendez, a.k.a. Silent Servant.
Drenched in romanticism and soaked in themes of solitude, mortality and love,
Tropic of Cancer's music forms a strangely hypnotic connection with its listener.
Camella Lobo's majestic vocals, warmly cradled by waves of ascending synths,
plangent guitar, and foreboding beats, summon the listener into a world of dark
decadence and delicate beauty.
Torres is a promising young talent out of Nashville. Velvet-toned vocals and amped-up guitar fuzz. http://torrestorrestorres.com/
Emperor X is a pop/noise/folk music project headed by American musician C. R. Matheny. The project often performs and records with little more than Matheny on an acoustic guitar and a dynamic microphone, but sometimes also employs large groups of musicians on percussion instruments, various electronic noisemakers, brass/woodwind/string ensembles, and traditional rock instruments. The lyrics of Emperor X songs have been described as simultaneously "hallucinatory" and "precise," and discuss subjects ranging from plate tectonics ("A Violent Translation of the Concordia Headscarp")...
TLS have been compared to SY / PVMNT / YLT + MBV and sound not much like the 'similar artists' below.
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The Cinnamons equate to a fresh slant on the (phenomenal) pop-scene blossoming from Glasgow, Scotland.
Influences from The Pixies through 80's electronica - they manage to steer well clear of the well trod paths of Glasvegas/Franz Ferdinand/Simple Minds mindset - 'we want to rock stadiums' to produce a sound that is instant as it is unique as it is infectious. A truly talented band that I was fortunate enough to catch on their last tour - Lucasda Jan '09